Team Alstare Suzuki to run only one SuperBike in 2002

Team Alstare Suzuki has announced that it will continue to contest both the Superbike and Supersport World Championships in 2002 as a Suzuki supported team.

The Superbike challenge will be spearheaded by Spaniard Gregorio Lavilla, who will ride a GSX-R 750, that will undergo continuous development with Team Alstare Suzuki. Twenty-eight year old Lavilla has vast experience in the Superbike World Championship and is already looking forward to the team’s first tests. He will be Team Alstare Suzuki’s sole rider, but the team feels that the knowledge and experience it gained in 2001 will allow the Spaniard to feel right at home from day one.

Team Alstare Suzuki's Supersport title attack will once again be taken up by Japanese rider Katsuaki Fujiwara aboard the 2002 Suzuki GSX-R600. His teammate will be Frenchman Stephane Chambon. Fujiwara had the unluckiest season of his career in 2001 and is eager to show his true worth in 2002.

His teammate Stephane Chambon had a hard year on the Superbike in 2001 and is happy to return to the class in which he won the Supersport World Series title in 1999. The combination of Fujiwara and Chambon will make Team Alstare Suzuki Supersport a force to be reckoned with in 2002.